Re: CHAT Almost well-formed southern ape (wasRe: Teknonyms)

A song from Australian band Ice House keeps popping up, in all its glory, mutilated:

"Great  Southern  Ape,  Great  Southern  Ape
you  walk  alone,  like  a  primitive  man
and  they  make  it  work,  with  sticks  and  bones
see  their  hungry  eyes,  it's  a  hungry  home

I  hear  the  sound  of  the  strangers'  voices
I  see  their  hungry  eyes,  their  hungry  eyes
Great  Southern  Ape,  Great  Southern  Ape
they  burned  you  black,  black  against  the  ground"

;)

Wesley Parish

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm back now in the UK and on list. I meant to post the following
> before
> > my short sojourn in France:
> >
> > Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > > R A Brown skrev:
> > [snip]
> > >> _australis_ "southern" is a perfectly good Latin adjective. But if
> > >> this were a properly formed Latin compound, it would be
> > >> 'Australipithecus' "southern ape".
> > >>
> > >> Sigh.
> > >>
> > >
> > > "Notiopithecus" had not only been perfect Greek, it had also
> > > precluded the notion that the critter lived in Australia!
> >
> > One would think the epithet 'africanus' would, er, a sort of gives
> away
> > its habitat.
>
> Well, that's fine for Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, A.
> bahrelghazali
> and A. aethiopicus, but not for A. anamensis, A. robustus, A. garhi, and
> A.
> boisei.
>
> (The splittists would place aethiopicus, robustus, and boisei in the
> separate
> genus Paranthropus.)
>
>  Andreas
>


"Sharpened hands are happy hands.
"Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands"
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge

"I me.  Shape middled me.  I would come out into hot!"
I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
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